Tuesday, September 13, 2016

An Awesome Gift!

Look what arrived in the mail yesterday from my friend Mary from Quilt Hollow.


It looks huge in the photo above but in actual fact, it measures only 6"x 10".

Mary knows me so well and our tastes are almost identical when it comes to fabrics and themes.  Not too many people know that I collect pineapples, the Colonial symbol of hospitality.  I have several throughout our house, including dried ones.


Mary's longarm quilting is perfection and even the binding is hand-stitched with teeny-tiny stitches.  I wouldn't have expected any less from Mary.

As soon as I'm able, I will be taking this in to be framed.  It's waaaay too precious not to be showcased in this way.

Thank you sooooooooo much, my friend.


Have a wonderful stitching kinda day!

21 comments:

  1. What a wondeful gift! Mary certainly knows you well. I love the way she quilted it. Beautiful!

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  2. What a lovely gift...perhaps you need to start a wall of minis...fir gifts you receive and hand stitched pieces you will now be doing 😊

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  3. What a lovely gift...perhaps you need to start a wall of minis...fir gifts you receive and hand stitched pieces you will now be doing 😊

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  4. How thoughtful of Mary to make this lovely pineapple quilt for you. The quilting looks fabulous, and so unique, and will look great framed and hung on your wall.

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  5. You've got a VERY SWEET friend!!! It's beautiful!

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  6. It is beautiful and oh so appropriate!

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  7. Oh this is really a lovely gift! How do you dry a pineapple? I've never seen one....hugs, Julierose

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  8. Nothing better than caring, thoughtful friends!! How nice, Kaaren. I hope each and every day is a bit better for you than the day before.

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  9. How sweet! And what a great job she did on the quilting!

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  10. So pretty! You're right, it looked huge!

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  11. Mary is such a sweet person and her work is impeccable. The pineapple is gorgeous.

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  12. Mary is a dear--this was so sweet of her (I miss her blog posts).
    Looks like she made the perfect gift for you, Kaaren. She knows just how to quilt things, too. It will be beautiful framed!

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  13. I didn't know there was such a thing as a dried pineapple. Can you share a picture some day?

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  14. What a sweet gift from a sweet friend! I love pineapples and what they represent too. How did you dry the real pineapples out?

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  15. Her quilting is really perfection. Very pretty ♥

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  16. The cutest gift! Friends are for this!
    Rina.

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  17. Very sweet! I treasure my gifts from my quilt friends.

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